Timothy Burgess pleaded guilty this week to a charge of use of interstate communication to convey a threat, court documents show.

Burgess, 45, is also alleged to have threatened President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and other political leaders, according to a four-page affidavit filed in December 2012 in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.

According to court documents, Burgess sent a Dec. 4 message through the Social Security Administration's website asking for more money in his monthly check “to live on.”

“I will never go away,” Burgess said in the e-mail, according to the
criminal complaint. “I will drive you crazy. $698 per month? I need more
to live on, so you need to do your job and give me more to live on.

“You
see, I love little girls, they are very nice looking. It would be too
bad if one of the little girls died. So very sad. I like to rape little
girls and have sex with them. I love to have sex and play with little
girls who are 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 years old. I will get my
first victim very soon.”

Court documents show that when a Social
Security Administration agent and a Battle Creek police detective interviewed
Burgess on Dec. 10, he admitted to sending the threat.

Investigators
said they searched Burgess’ house that same day and found “several
written communications that contained threatening statements” against
the Obamas, their children, Vice President Joe Biden and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.

Burgess also had written threats to specific teenage girls in the Battle Creek area and had images of child pornography on a hard drive near his computer, court documents show.

Sentencing for Burgess is scheduled for Oct. 16 in Grand Rapids.

Aaron Mueller is a public safety reporter for the Kalamazoo
Gazette. Contact him at amuelle1@mlive.com or 269-568-3867.
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